X-Message-Number: 10232 From: "Timur Rozenfeld" <> Subject: Symbols, Rationality and Logic Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 09:35:56 -0600 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0010_01BDC766.F0483EA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >Symbols are not the world, nor is language of any >kind the world. If rationality is the same as logic, then rationality >cannot deal with everything in the world. (But then do we want that >to be true? ie. rationality =3D=3D logic?). If you equate the term symbols with concepts, then symbols are not the world, but are constructs of the mind that represent aspects of the = world. A language puts symbols into audio-visual concrete units that can be used to build knowledge. Rationality and logic are not the same. Logic is non-contradictory identification, a tool used by humans to understand the world, whereas = rationality is a frame of mind or acquired character trait, where the application of reason becomes part of one's life. As for the fact that logic cannot deal with everything in the world, I don't understand what the statement means. Timur Rozenfeld ------=_NextPart_000_0010_01BDC766.F0483EA0 Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10232